Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Basic workflows for Git and SVN compared

Although the basic checkout, work, merge, and commit workflow is supported by all mainstream SCMs, it's worth looking at some of the additional process steps that Git requires. Each additional step is, obviously, an additional task that a developer will have to perform before code is fully committed, though none of them are necessarily long-running tasks, so the impact is rarely going to be substantial. On the other hand, each additional step involved provides an additional point where additional code modification can be made before it's attached to the master version of the code.

Compare the Git Workflow (left) and SVN Workflow (right):

• The processes of getting the current version of the code ...